Division of Sleep Medicine @ Harvard Medical School
Faculty Profile
Jeremy M. Wolfe, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
Senior Physician, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Other Affiliation(s)
Senior Lecturer, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Address
Visual Attention Lab64 Sidney Street, Suite 170
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
Inter-office Mail Address
Visual Attention Lab, Suite 17064 Sidney St, Cambridge, MA
Phone 617-768-8818
Fax 617-768-8816
Email wolfe@search.bwh.harvard.edu
Society Memberships
Psychonomic SocietyAmerican Psychological Association (fellow - Divisions 1, 3, 6)
American Psychological Society (fellow as of 2002)
Eastern Psychological Association
Society for Experimental Psychology
American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow as of 2002)
Research Unit(s)
Visual Attention Laboratory
Research Interests
Work in the laboratory can be broken into five major areas.
Basic Research
1. Preattentive vision - Studies of the processing of visual stimuli before they are selected by attention for further, more complete analysis.
2. Attentional deployment - Studies of the mechanisms by which attention selects specific items including studies of how to terminate searches without finding the target.
3. Post-Attentive vision - Studies of the consequences of attention. Once attention has been deployed to an item and has been removed, what are the persistent effects of that act of attention?
Clinical and Applied Research
4. Effect of circadian phase and sleep deprivation on attention - In collaboration with the lab of Dr. Charles Czeisler (Harvard / BWH), as series of studies of the interaction of attention with sleep and circadian factors.
5. Studies of visual search as they apply to Airport Security and Medical Screening. Our particular interest is in the impact of target prevalence. How does search performance change if targets are very rare (as in screening tasks)
Basic Research
1. Preattentive vision - Studies of the processing of visual stimuli before they are selected by attention for further, more complete analysis.
2. Attentional deployment - Studies of the mechanisms by which attention selects specific items including studies of how to terminate searches without finding the target.
3. Post-Attentive vision - Studies of the consequences of attention. Once attention has been deployed to an item and has been removed, what are the persistent effects of that act of attention?
Clinical and Applied Research
4. Effect of circadian phase and sleep deprivation on attention - In collaboration with the lab of Dr. Charles Czeisler (Harvard / BWH), as series of studies of the interaction of attention with sleep and circadian factors.
5. Studies of visual search as they apply to Airport Security and Medical Screening. Our particular interest is in the impact of target prevalence. How does search performance change if targets are very rare (as in screening tasks)
Trainees
Post-doctoral Students:
Patricia O'Neill (1992 - 1995); Todd S. Horowitz, PhD (1995 - 1999); Gary Randall (1998 - 2000); Peter Brawn (1998 - 2000); Aude Oliva (2000 - 2002 ); Nayantara Santhi, PhD (2000 - 2002); David Fencsik (2003 - Present); Evan Palmer (2003 - Present); Melina Kunar (2003 - Present); Anina Rich (2005 - Present)
Patricia O'Neill (1992 - 1995); Todd S. Horowitz, PhD (1995 - 1999); Gary Randall (1998 - 2000); Peter Brawn (1998 - 2000); Aude Oliva (2000 - 2002 ); Nayantara Santhi, PhD (2000 - 2002); David Fencsik (2003 - Present); Evan Palmer (2003 - Present); Melina Kunar (2003 - Present); Anina Rich (2005 - Present)
Research Funding
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) (PI)
Toward Guided Search 4.0
NIMH (RO1 - MH56020) (PI)
Post-Attentive Vision
US Dept of Transportation
(FAA 02-G-010) (PI)
Self-regulation of visual search behavior
NIMH (RO1-MH065576) (Horowitz-PI, Wolfe-Investigator)
Control of Dynamic Attention
NIH (F32 EY016387)
(Wolfe = Sponsor)
Serial and parallel processing in visual perception
(Post-doctoral fellowship for David Fencsik)
NIH (1F32EY016632-01A1)
(Wolfe = Sponsor)
Time Course of Guidance in Visual Search
(Post-doctoral fellowship for Evan Palmer)
Toward Guided Search 4.0
NIMH (RO1 - MH56020) (PI)
Post-Attentive Vision
US Dept of Transportation
(FAA 02-G-010) (PI)
Self-regulation of visual search behavior
NIMH (RO1-MH065576) (Horowitz-PI, Wolfe-Investigator)
Control of Dynamic Attention
NIH (F32 EY016387)
(Wolfe = Sponsor)
Serial and parallel processing in visual perception
(Post-doctoral fellowship for David Fencsik)
NIH (1F32EY016632-01A1)
(Wolfe = Sponsor)
Time Course of Guidance in Visual Search
(Post-doctoral fellowship for Evan Palmer)
Teaching
Introductory Psychology at MIT and Harvard
Psychology and Literature at MIT
Psychology and Literature at MIT
Selected Publications
Wolfe JM, Horowitz TS. What attributes guide the deployment of visual attention and how do they do it?
Nat Rev Neurosci. 2004 Jun;5(6):495-501. Review. [PMID: 15152199]
Wolfe JM, Alvarez GA, Horowitz TS. Attention is fast but volition is slow.
Nature. 2000 Aug 17;406(6797):691. [PMID: 10963584]
Wolfe JM, Klempen N, Dahlen K. Postattentive vision.
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 2000 Apr;26(2):693-716. [PMID: 10811170]
Horowitz TS, Wolfe JM. Visual search has no memory.
Nature. 1998 Aug 6;394(6693):575-7. [PMID: 9707117]
Wolfe, J. M. 1994 Guided Search 2.0: A revised model of visual search.
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 1, 2, 202-238.
Nat Rev Neurosci. 2004 Jun;5(6):495-501. Review. [PMID: 15152199]
Wolfe JM, Alvarez GA, Horowitz TS. Attention is fast but volition is slow.
Nature. 2000 Aug 17;406(6797):691. [PMID: 10963584]
Wolfe JM, Klempen N, Dahlen K. Postattentive vision.
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 2000 Apr;26(2):693-716. [PMID: 10811170]
Horowitz TS, Wolfe JM. Visual search has no memory.
Nature. 1998 Aug 6;394(6693):575-7. [PMID: 9707117]
Wolfe, J. M. 1994 Guided Search 2.0: A revised model of visual search.
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 1, 2, 202-238.
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